Friday, July 27, 2007

QUEER SPAWN, by Anna Boluda

ENGLISH:Award-winning documentary 'Queer Spawn' shows the life and thoughts of several teenagers in the United States who have gay or lesbian parents. In this website you can see a longer synopsis, a list of awards, television screenings and film festivals where it's been shown, as well as a short bio of the filmmaker. For more info, leave a comment.

Queer Spawn, a documentary

There are over ten milion children with gay or lesbian parents in the United States. Are their lives affected by their kind of family? From liberal New York City to conservative Texas, teenagers and their parents candidly share their experiences and insights.

Christopher is 12 years old, lives in Manhattan and has two dads. Kyle is 15, lives near Austin, TX, and has two moms. Their life experience has been very different because of the surroundings, as they and their parents candidly explain on camera while we get a glance of their everyday life.

The documentary also shows Family Week in Provincetown, the oldest annual meeting of families with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender parents. Many other teenagers and young adults who attended the event talked about the consequences of having lesbian or gay parents. How do they talk about it with other kids? Which reactions do they have to face? Do they feel some kind of extra pressure? Are they gay themselves?

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Bio

I am a journalist and live in Barcelona. I have worked as a TV reporter, documentary producer and PR. In September 2004 I moved to New York for a year and a half to pursue a MA in Broadcast Journalism at New York University with the support of a Fulbright scholarship. This documentary is my final project and my first work as a director. Actually it is a one-person project as I produced, shot and edited all by myself.